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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray flits of Information Gathered at Kandom and Arranged for Rapid Renders Mr. and Mrs. Vern iftrd returned the first of the week from a vacation trip-nml visit to rolatives at Provo. 10 When ordering your clothes get them from a real tailor. May 6-4 1 Matheson. Wm. Hurst of Beaver, deputy sheriff and a member of the county school bonrd, was here Tuesday on business. Hi A quantity of dressed lumber for camp equipment was received at Mil-ford Mil-ford last Monday for the Bullion Coalition Mining company of Beaver. P Spring is here. For good paper hanging and painting, call Chas. Roper, May 4-pd Burns & Bird. I The showers have again wet the farming lands of the valley and saved an Irrigation. Last year irrigation irri-gation began on the project on April 15. No irrigation has yet been nec-. nec-. essary this year. ft Paul Komiskey has taken a position posi-tion with the Pacific Fruit Express and works at night icing thecars of golden fruit to keep them in good order for the Easterners. This is Paul's regular summer job and" a good one. I The electric transformer and' other machinery equipment for the Stampede Stam-pede mine near Beaver arrived at the Milford depot Monday and was freighted to Beaver this week and the work of installation will proceed immediately at the mine. Pa Mrs. Larue Duffin gave a party in honor of her sister Ida Riding' of Caliente Wednesday. The popular game of 500 furnished the pastime for the occasion. Miss Augusta Allen Al-len was awarded the ladies' first prize and Harry Robbins won for the gentlemen. US Ten herds with an average of 2,000 sheep each have been held on the hillside southeast of town for the past two weeks awaiting their turns at the shearing pens northeast of Minersville. Last Sunday only two of the herds had been through the clippers' hands. Several ranchers living along the State highway south of town have re-, re-, cently missed rolls of fencing wire. The wire is quite valuable now as it has been rising in price with the rest of the high price procession and the owners have taken the matter up with the officers to try to locate their property. James Rollins of Minersville has removed with his family to the Van Liere ranch south of Milford, where he has leased a good fieldNof alfalfa and will farm the place this summer. A stove left in his house over night while he returned for another load of goods was taken from the place but was later located in a camp a few miles distant and returned with apologies. apol-ogies. A pair of Iron bed springs taken from another place nearby was also returned. Mr. I. Cline, president of the Milford Mil-ford Mercantile Co., owners of the Golden Rule Store, had a painful accident ac-cident last Saturday and it was fear-' fear-' ed at first that his hip had been broken. bro-ken. Mr. Cline was stepping up on the icy sidewalk opposite his store on Main street when he missed his footing and fell violently striking his side, leg and hip. He was unable to rise and was carried to the store and a physician called. It was found that he was severely bruised and the muscles of his limbs and the bones of one leg so strained that he was confined con-fined to his bed for four days. He has gone to Salt Lake City to remain awhile until he recuperates. Horn, on Sunday, April 29, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis, a son. : i ya i .Mrs. Blunt is enjoying a visit from her sister Mrs. Ekins and daughter from Montana. 11 C. O. Keiser of Canyon, Texas, "is expected to arrive in Milford soon with a carload of pure bred Herford bulls. Ba Herbert Eyre of Minersville has rented from the Delta Land & Water Co. the Schroeder ranch seven miles south of Milford near the highway. Pa-Scott Pa-Scott Blackburn has purchased the blacksmith shop and business of Joseph Johns southeast of the railroad rail-road tracks, Milford. Mr. Blackburn is a practical horseshoer and blacksmith black-smith and solicits your patronage. Pa A. J. Sorensen of Salt Lake City, formerly in the undertaking business here, has spent this week in Milford looking after his rather extensive property interests in this locality. Mr. Sorensen now has a profitable moving picture business in the northern part of the State. PS Milford is to be better than ever provided with- the means of quenching quench-ing the summer thirst. The Quirk Drug Company installed this week a brand new spick and span fountain for cool temperance drinks that refresh re-fresh but do not Inebriate. The fountain is an ornament as well as sanitary and very convenient. pa-George pa-George Larson, manual training teacher of the high school, was called call-ed to Salt Lake City last Sunday by a telegram stating that he was to report re-port for examination for admission into the Government officers' training train-ing camp located at San Francisco. Mr. Larson left at once. He applied for admission about four weeks ago. He returned Tuesday and though unable to get into the training camp will enlist in U. S. cavalry. Pa T. C. Davison of the Parkford Realty Co., ot Ontario, California, is in Milford this week. Mr. Davison is particularly interested in the growing grow-ing of beans and is making some investigations in-vestigations as to the feasibility of a considerable acreage to be planted in this valley. Mr. Davison was formerly former-ly an official of the Salt Lake Route and has known this country for a number of years. Pa The county board of education was in Milford. Tuesday to meet State Architect Monson of Salt Lake City. Mr. Monson investigated the local school-building and ordered' several improvements to be made 'in the same before the opening of school this fall. Several hundred dollars will need to be spent in repairs and changes in the lighting and heating of the grade school building. Pa-Herbert Pa-Herbert Nichols, Myron Lewis and Charley Baxter have secured a bond and lease on the old Humbolt mine, five miles southwest of Milford. The mine has been worked off and on for the past twenty-five years and for copper, gold, silver and lead. The new promoters will go after the lead and silver especially. It shows excellent ex-cellent values for profitable working and several men have already been put to work in the old workings and on further exploration and development. develop-ment. Pa-Karl Pa-Karl S. Carlton, late of Riverside, California, one of the owners of the Beaver County News, has arrived with his wife and son and will locate at Beaver City and engage In the newspaper business there. The Beaver Bea-ver County Press of that city was recently re-cently purchased by D. A. Webster and ha3 been resold to the Beaver County Publishing Company, a new corporation. As soon as the full new equipment for the Beaver printing office arrives all of the work for that office will be done at that place independently in-dependently of the Milford office. Mr. Carlton has lived in Riverside county for many years and was for several terms a member of the Board of Supervisers there". 1 The thirty-ninth annual Utah State Fair, Salt Lake City, opens Saturday, September 2:uh, and closes Saturday, October 6th, 1917. Pa-Mrs. Pa-Mrs. A. B. Barnett and two children chil-dren arrived this morning for a short visit with her husband, a brakeman on the Salt Lake Route. Pa Kindly present at earliest "convenience "conven-ience all borrowed articles or cash payable to GEO. T. LARSEN, and valid claims on him of any kind. After Af-ter May 15th leave them at this office. of-fice. It . -fa- Joseph Smith and family removed to Salt Lake City Wednesday. Mr. Smith is an engineer and has been running on the Milford division. He will now take a run out of Salt Lake City. Pa-Ralph Pa-Ralph Lemon and Fred Heck have purchased a three-ton Kelly-Springfield truck and have leased an iron warehouse near the railroad. They will do a general storage business and run a freight truck line between Milford and Beaver. Prj Joe Jackson and Ed Works have been engaged as the guards for the project dam five miles above Minersville Miners-ville and their instructions are to KEEP ALL PEOPLE AWAY unless they are equipped with a pass properly prop-erly signed by the authorities. PB-Mr. PB-Mr. and Mrs. George Williams and family request the News to thus publicly extend their most sincere gratitude to the neighbors and friends who so kindly administered unto them extending aid and sympathy sympa-thy in the sad bereavement in the loss of their two little ones within a week. PS-Word PS-Word received from the Federal Land Bank at Berkeley states that money will be ready to loan about May 15th. How fast the accumulated accumulat-ed applications may be disposed of is problematical. But the work may be facilitated greatly by the. co-operation of the local associations in doing do-ing their work accurately and promptly. |